Everything about that sentence makes me chuckle
July 25, 2011
12:00 am
Spent last week doing a lot of late nights at work and hanging out at SDCC Saturday and Sunday, so with a lack of free time to do a full-blown page, I just picked on something I’d been snickering about on my tumblr and did a quick little thang.
My god… it took me a while to get the REAL meaning of that sentence
I had to get out my Dick Tracey Decoder Ring to figure out the original meaning.
I got:
DRINK MORE OVALTINE.
Hmmm, don’t get it.
At first i got EAT MORE CHEERIOS then i realized i used some wrong letters and got the true meaning
Wait, what’s the true meaning?
Love.
pancakes
I now have a new favorite mental image, and it will surely haunt my dreams tonight. Thanks for that.
Probably the least amount of pupils anyone’s ever had to draw in a comic.
Yep. One and a half.
Wait, wut?
What’s with the shrunken head necklace? I thought that was a south pacific or south american thing.
THIS COMIC LEAVES ME WITH TERRIBLE CONFUSION!
THIS COMIC ANGERS AND CONFUSES ME!
LP SMAAAAAASSHHH CONFUSING PLETHORA OF GIRLY-SMELLING BATH PRODUCTS!
THIS COMMENT IS ALSO CONFUSING TO ME!
…Whut?
YOUR CONFUSION IS CONFUSING TO ME! CURIOUS SMASH!
CCCCCOMBO BREAKER!!!
It’s Dhalsim, of Street Fighter fame. And his lesser known work in advanced yoga techniques, which build one’s balance, flexibility, and ability to breathe fire.
Still makes no sense. :P
Look at the top picture. Then look at the comic. If you still don’t get it, I feel very bad for you.
Would it help if I mentioned that Dhalsim is from India?
NO IT DOES NOT HEPL
I am not sure if that is an “I still don’t understand the joke” or an “I understand the joke, and it’s terrible.” For posterity:
The original quote reads: “Can you mount … M. bison like Indians did?” (extraneous words removed). Here we have two Street Fighter characters, one of whom is named M. Bison, and the other of whom is an Indian (in the sense of being from India). The Indian has mounted M. Bison.
This is not canonically accurate to Street Fighter, it is not what the person who asked the question really meant, and it is most certainly not historically accurate to the American Old West; it is deliberately the exact opposite of all of those things while still technically fitting the words. Look up “pun” on Wikipedia for more.
Dude, you’re missing the point, this has nothing to do with street fighter. the guy or gal who commented on the Red Dead Redemption forum was asking if you are able to mount bulls or mount bison like the indians did, but insted put M. insted of reusing the word mount. So all that this comic is doing is making fun of the failed comment by putting street fighter characters in it. Get it now or still not able to get a simple joke?
No, they got it pretty well, I think you may have just gotten a little lost in their detailed description there. People from India mounting M. Bison = not historically accurate. Natives riding bison = not historically accurate. “Can you mount M. bison like Indians did?” = An incorrect way to ask the historically flawed question “Can I ride bison like the natives did?”
As far as I know, the skulls are from children who died of illness or disease in his home village.
So he takes peoples skulls when they die?…thats kind of messed up…
Better than taking their skulls while they’re still alive.
you ever heard of organ donors? same basic principles.
Street Fighter Canon is that Dhalsim wears that necklace of skulls from children who starved to remind him that he’s fighting for the poor and needy.
It’s a morbid string around his finger.
That is cold stone hardcore.
Instead of Cake Batter they have Rusty Knife and Barret .50cal
Those are some pretty small children…also…he DECAPITATED THE BODIES?!?
The dead don’t give a fuck.
They aren’t using them anymore.
This is a character from a Japanese video game made by Japanese video game developers.
You can’t expect them to depict other cultures accurately or inoffensively.
“You kill my horse, you replace my horse.”
…Marston’s mild puzzlement just cracks me up even more.
A brown man subjugating a white man, how droll :>
Bison’s from Thailand
How M. Bison spends his Tuesdayts is entirely his business.
This comment destroyed me.
This is perhaps the most serious bison.
srs bsns indeed.
Great, now I gotta get a new keyboard, got Barq’s all over this one… :)
This comic fills me with child-like glee.
Drawn just moments before *Cougar’d*
..Oh lord, I can’t get it out of my head!
This is beautiful.
<3
I want Bison’s face as my steam avatar.
Something tells me M Bison doesn’t like this.
Agreed. XP He usually looks so happy.
Well being mounted is never fun, especially if you don’t use protection…
He’s thinking, “It’s just not the same without my fursuit.”
OF COURSE
More historically inaccurate than donkey ladies and gunslinger coyotes?
I laughed so hard my stomach hurts. No, really, that’s not exaggeration, it hurts horribly. But yes, thank you for this cute image.
Ah brilliant as always! I am now going to chuckle into my long good night or some such sleepy silliness!
I request a redo with T. Hawk riding M. Bison. After seeing this I wonder what that would look like.
Now THATS an epic mount. I want one for my death knight.
Dhalsim makes a proud and worthy rider indeed.
Could somebody please explain the joke, I don’t even know what to I should Google. I am familiar with street fighter, but WHAT?
Dhalsim is from India, so he’s Indian.
He has mounted M. Bison, as per the question above the comic.
If I have to further explain this you will make me intensely sad.
Please explain further some of us will still not get it we just won’t I know people hate explaining jokes but it drives us who usually don’t get these jokes crazy when they aren’t explained.
No, that’s pretty much the whole joke. You can probably figure out whatever you’re missing from the puzzle with a cursory googling of Street Fighter and/or Red Dead Redemption. If you still don’t get it, maybe the joke just wasn’t meant for you…
RDR = Gunfighter dog, donkey woman, cougar man, bear riding horses, flying men. All in the old west.
-___- god, INDIANS RIDING ON BISON
Bison’ed.
My only relation with RDR are glitch videos on YouTube, and the guest comic you showed a while back that was about the song Dead Man’s Gun.
If I’m still laughing at this, I think I really need to grab this game as soon as I get a PS3 or 360, whichever comes first.
This just made my Monday infinitely more enjoyable. I will now laugh at everything because of this.
Only on GameSpot :P
I…bah… ack. Buh./brain goes splort
(I’m so confused. ._________. )
As a french Canadian, I always called M. Bison Monsieur Bison (which is french for buffalo, though I believe Americans use both words). As a result I find this hilarious.
Bison is the proper name for the animal in North America, but “buffalo” and “American buffalo” are slang terms people use for it often enough that they’ve been kind of adopted as proper names. Which, not gonna lie, is a bit of a pet peeve of mine because a “buffalo” is a completely different animal that originates on a completely different continent, and now when I talk about them as different animals (like going to the butcher shop that sells both bison AND buffalo for example) people get all “herp derp no u crazy they the same animal”
Well I leaned something new today…
Hopefully it didn’t tip over
Yeah, the whole buffalo/bison are the same thing! comments get to me, too. Out where I grew up, they started a program to save the bison population. People would always come up to the ranch and this would happen –
Them: “Hey look! Buffalo!”
Me: “No, Bison.”
Them: “There’s a difference?”
Me: “Yes. Not immediately apparent to people who have never seen both.”
Them: “What’s the difference?”
Me: “Buffalo don’t have a big hump and have longer horns.”
Them: “Ah.”
Me: “Also, there are buffalo in Asia and Africa, and none really left here. There are 230k Bison in North America.”
i cant stop laughing each time i look at the first panel.
Where are John Marston’s gloves
Not on his hands.
If I could thumbs up this
That’s hot.
i totally dnt get this no matter how hard i try
Indians have no known history of mounting M. Bison. It is silly to suggest that it would be a feature in Red Dead Redemption.
I took it as, “An Indian (wrong kind, though) riding a Bison. Not historically ACCURATE as RDR would have you believe (that you can ride Bison).”
I hope that by “wrong kind” of Indian you don’t actually mean that you still call natives “Indians”. Because that would be pretty silly and outdated, I think most of the people I know would openly make fun of you for it.
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a hostility-free conversation where a non-native unironically referred to a native as an “Indian”. When I hear people talk about Indians, I just naturally assume they mean individuals from India.
Don’t tell Russel Means.
But it’s really not that surprising that there are people who would make fun of other people for doing things differently in the name of tolerance.
Russel Means is Sioux, he’s not non-native at all. But I can’t speak for what things were like when he was growing up in thirties. Or campainging in the sixties. I just know what it was like when I was growing up in Northern Manitoba, “Indian” was kind of a “their word” deal that you wouldn’t normally hear non-natives use unless there was a derogatory or sarcastic infliction along with it.
The term itself is a lot like “negro”, It still shows up on official documents and organizations, but it’s jarring to hear someone actually use it in casual conversation.
If you want to know the general attitude about the term up there, the grocery store got in some magazine called “Cowboys and Indians” and the two girls working at the register responded with “Oh, so they’re calling us Indians again?” “What? I thought we were still aboriginals!”
Well, in the game they refer to them as Indians. In most Westerns, they refer to them as Indians. Throughout history, they called them Indians. I personally call them Native Americans since I went to school with five or six Native Americans who I’m still pretty good friends with. But I was referring to the fact that your comic
I mean, I live in a state (Nebraska) where there are two reservations, below a state that has four (South Dakota), and to the east of one (Colorado) that has two. But a lot of people out here (90%) in the Great Plains still call them “Injins” or “Indians” and it appears no one really cares about it. I’ve even heard other Midwest Native Americans call each other Indians. I think out here, the problem lies in the fact that a lot of Native Americans don’t seem to have much pride let alone unity like they do in Canada, so they basically don’t care or fight to alter the perception of what Great Plains tribes are.
Example: The first time a friend of mine came out here from the East Coast, he said he was slightly surprised that we were more modernized than he imagined. He was surprised that the Native Americans dressed like regular people and didn’t still ride around in head-dresses. I thought that was kind of odd until we stopped to talk to my buddy John Redhorse, who said that he could understand how the Eastern folks are surprised, since the Great Plains tribes often put on shows and act like their 1800’s selves to entertain the “white man” at every opportunity. He’s sadly disappointed that his tribe (the Sioux) don’t do more to educate the rest of the country about the reality of their present day situation. Which is still pretty bad out here. He’s also upset that his people have resorted to robbing people by opening casinos on reservations, which are still considered government land.
Whoa. The comment thing cut off half a sentence in the first paragraph there. I meant it to end with:
“But I was referring to the fact that your comic was suggesting an Indian riding on a Bison, which didn’t happen, although the game Red Dead would have you believe otherwise.”
Yeah, it was one of those “I don’t know which part of that sentence to correct first” kind of deals when I saw it on the forum.
I don’t even know what I was looking for, I think the My Little Pony episode with the bison because someone told me it was tragically racist and I wanted to see what a cringeworthy job they did turning “massacre of native culture by settlers in the old west” into “My Little Pony Friendship is Magic”. Also, I wanted to know what a “My Little Bison” looked like.
Now I’m extremely curious. What does My Little Bison look like?
Ep. 21 Over a Barrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhHD-lQ_a8&feature=related
As far as that particular episode of MLP… it is so incredibly cringeworthy that nothing can save it. I’d go as far as to say the guy that wrote it shouldn’t get to write another episode, it’s just THAT BAD.
And the funny thing is it wouldn’t be so horrible if it wasn’t a terribly obvious pastiche of ‘Injuns vs Settlers’.
It really depends on where you are. I live in Washington, and by the time it was getting settled it was no longer acceptable to treat the natives like complete subhumans, so all they really got was forced assimilation. Around here they still have a LOT of tribal pride, and they don’t like getting called Indians.
I’ve always found ‘Native American’ a rather badly chosen term to be honest.
You’re not talking about where the person was born, or even where anyone in the last ten generations of their family tree was born. And if we *do* decide to go back that many generations, why not go even further and use the term “Beringian American”? Setting aside, of course, that anthropologists still use the term “paleo-Indian”, and any questions about viking ancestry.
And “Indian is an even worse term.
I’m just saying if you came into the part of the world I was raised in as (I am assuming) a non-native and started calling everybody “Indians”, you wouldn’t make many friends.
Most Native Americans prefer to be called Native Americans.
The alternatives – in their eyes – are worse.
And my friend in Florida, who does have Viking blood, says his family prefers to be called Norsemen rather than Vikings. LOL
Personally, I just call them by their tribal name. Every Indian/Native America/Tribal American that I’ve ever met cares FAR more about their tribe than the racial sticker that gets stamped on people of their genetic type. After all, your tribe is your family, and famiyl means one hell of a lot more than which box you check off on the race part of a job application. That said, I do feel that the term “Native American” is vaguely insulting to all people who live in the Americas who aren’t part of one of the tribes. Are they somehow more American than the rest of us because they happened to be born with a certain group of genes? I don’t think so.
They are the indigenous peoples of the Americas. They are more native to the Americas than the Europeans that came over here on ships. Europeans have only lived here about 280 years – the Native Americans have lived here for a thousand or more years. They owned most of the land in North America.
Granted, just because I’m from the United States of America doesn’t make me more American than people from Canada. We’ve just adapted to having foreigners call us US people “Americans.” I find the patriotism connected to the descriptor “American” to mean just people from the USA elitist at best.
That is the exact reason i call them indigenous Americans.
Which in my experience would sound awkwardly formal in casual conversation….
Well of course- ‘Viking’, after all, was just a job description.
It’s sad because the USA government itself still uses the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But anyone who tries to talk to the BIA realizes that they don’t know anything about the people they’re supposed to be dealing with.
The forum post looked like a banner ad at first glance, and my brain automatically ignored it. That left a non-sequitur that was still inexplicably hilarious.
Seconded. That might be why people are confused, if they didn’t read the whole thing.
That is most disturbing image I have ever seen… I think worse mental image is Lady Gaga with Freddy Cruger, though both of are men, I’m sure both of them will work that out.
Can not wait until your next page :>
John vernacular is a little overdone.
This is the kind of revisionist history we need in today’s world.
None of this conspiracies to cover up conspiracies crap, just people inserting random wacky hijinks into the past.
My GOD man! That has already lead to the entire Baroque Period!
My GOD it’s you!
Oh so that’s where the baroque period came from. I knew it! I knew it all along.
I almost feel bad saying i get this despite never having played that Street Fighter.
I didn’t really think it was that complicated, I don’t really understand the number of people who seem lost on it…
it’s the juxtaposition and simplicity, really. It’s like NyanCat.
And yes I have processing issues. :p
and, for what it’s worth, it’s either Native American or the tribe they claim– if one really must describe the ethnic background of an individual. I know enough people from the subcontinent of India *and* from tribal groups native to the Americas that it can get confusing.
Yeah, I grew up in a fairly Cree and Metis town, a guy I knew went to Australia and a taxi driver there referred to him as a “Red Indian From Canada”, which garnered a lot of laughs and facepalms when he came back to share the story.
On that note, I think it’s the saddest thing when I mention “Cree” and people think I’m referring to a race of Marvel aliens.
That’s horrifyingly awesome/awesomely horrifying. At least though people recognize Cree as an actual word, say Metis and at best you’ll someone who understand French who knows what it means but not what you are referring to.
I thought you had mentioned being from Manitoba? I’ve never met anyone in Manitoba who didn’t know what “Metis” meant… Maybe it’s just us Northerners who get the language? I went through the Frontier School Division, which is the school board for all the small communities that can’t afford to run their own. There’s such a high native population in the division that native studies is a mandatory class if you want a Frontier diploma when you graduate (you can get a Manitoba one without it, but the division itself considers the course mandatory)
I don’t recall ever mentioning here where I’m from. I’ve lived on the west coast of Canada all my life, though my mothers family is from Manitoba. Got a lot of family there, one day I’ll have to go visit them.
Since you mentioned the Metis, I had to forward this to a friend of mine who, in fact, lives in Manitoba. According to him (Mike, my Metis friend):
“And yet, still more historically accurate than calling -me- an Indian…”
See, a true Marvel nerd would read Cree and know it’s not the alien race, because a true Marvel nerd knows it’s spelled “Kree” with a K.
Man, where I lived as a kid, it was stragglers of the Pawnee and Arapaho tribes. I don’t think the Pawnee even have a full tribe anymore.
When I head “Cree” I think of a bunch of Jaffa running around yelling at each other.
Well some, like me may have overthought it. I got that it was M. Bison from Street Fighter and Dhalsim, and then was overthinking it and wondering if i missed something xD
Calling it right now: in 2014, Universal’s going to do up a huge multi-disc 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition for Street Fighter: The Movie. Hidden among its bonus features will be a short, silent, grainy clip of Raul Julia and Roshan Seth acting out this scene against a sprawling eburnean void.
Anyone who watches this clip will suffer headaches, recurring nightmares, and, ultimately, insanity.
You can actually ride bulls and bison in multiplayer. But Rockstar missed a golden opportunity by not including bear mounts though, then again it wouldn’t be very accurate since the game isn’t set in Canada.
oh wow, lmao i think i have just been slapped in the face with this comic. So not what i was expecting, though i dont know what i would have been expecting.
still hilarious
Oh this IS delicious! YES!… YES!!!
Where is the goddamn “like” button?
Possible thoughts going through Bison’s head;
“WHEN AM I GETTING PAID FOR THIS”
“If I stare down that charging wildebeest perhaps we’ll be safe”
Bison looks THRILLED!
Reminds me of the MGDMT extra, Scowly Men.
What a joyous reference. >:[
I needed a good laugh at something simple and silly tonight. This was perfect. Love iiiiiiiit.
Of course!
But why does John have that facial hair?
Out of curiousity, have you made yourself a font that you can use or are you hand-drawing it every time? Specifically for the title of this comic panel as well as the comic as a whole.
I quite like it either way.
I thought the top of the comic was a banner ad so the comic made no sense.
I don’t get why everyone is so confused about this. I’ve played maybe ten minutes of Red Dead and haven’t played Street Fighter since the SNES but I understand the comic perfectly…
That’s the creepiest drawing of Marston I’ve ever seen.
Being that I’ve played both Street Fighter (2, pre-Turbo, on SNES, yard-sale purchase, second-owner) and Red Dead Redemption (Christmas present the year of launch) I found this quite hilarious indeed.
And it’s not entirely due to the fact that I heard John Marston’s cigarette-roughened voice when I read it, either. (Dhalsim cares not for your inaccuracies!)
I feel kind of guilty that the chuckle I could not stiffle was rather for when M. Bison became to resemble Red Bull in my mind’s eye ^_^
i freely admit i was thoroughly confused (having never played red dead redemption) i also thought the top part was an ad banner. but you know what?
i DID play the very FIRST street fighter (shows you my age eh?)
the one where it was just ken and ryu, then really enjoyed the second or “world” street fighter, so the second picture ALONE made this hilarious.
and being at least somewhat educated, i’ve always thought of white people as mostly europeans (thats where we came from) people from india as “indians” and the indigenous as just “americans” but even then its our word for it.
sadly ignorance is kind of prevalent where i am, we have people who lump italians with mexicans, and half the mexicans thinking they’re descended from indians, instead of the spaniards. and perhaps everyones slightly off due to so much genetic mixing by this time. who knows.
Sometimes I think about how we were almost the timeline where Vega was the mask-wearing, claw-wielding Spaniard, M. Bison was the burly Native American, and Balrog was the artificially created avatar of evil.
Instead of ‘Bison Bucks’, it’s ‘Balrog Bucks’.